Learn Lisp programming in a data structures context, including tables, functions, forms, expressions, typed-pointers, I/O, garbage collection and some applications. This short primer contains a careful description of the data structures manipulated by Lisp functions. These data structures and others, notably hash tables, are also used in constructing a Lisp interpreter.Interpreting Lisp will be of special interest to those learning and using programming languages and compu...

If you need help writing programs in Python 3, or want to update older Python 2 code, this book is just the ticket. Packed with practical recipes written and tested with Python 3.3, this unique cookbook is for experienced Python programmers who want to focus on modern tools and idioms.Inside, you’ll find complete recipes for more than a dozen topics, covering the core Python language as well as tasks common to a wide variety of application domains. Each recipe contains code samples...

Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students, emphasises fundamental techniques for reasoning mathematically about functional programs. By studying the underlying equational laws, the book enables students to apply calculational reasoning to their programs, both to understand their properties and to make them more efficient. The book has been designed to fit a first- or second-year undergraduate cours...

Microsoft ASP.NET SignalR adds real-time web functionality to your applications. This book helps you how to build SignalR application with several scenarios and code illustration. The following is a list of highlight topics in this book: * Preparing Development Environment * Persistent Connections * ASP.NET SignalR Hubs * ASP.NET SignalR Groups * SignalR and ASP.NET MVC 5 * SignalR and .NET Client * SignalR and Windows Store * Publishing Sign...

Why learn Scala? You don’t need to be a data scientist or distributed computing expert to appreciate this object-oriented functional programming language. This practical book provides a comprehensive yet approachable introduction to the language, complete with syntax diagrams, examples, and exercises. You’ll start with Scala's core types and syntax before diving into higher-order functions and immutable data structures.Author Jason Swartz demonstrates why Scala’s concise and expres...

IEEE 802.15.4 is a standard protocol to build WPAN network. This book helps you how to get started with IEEE 802.15.4 programming through XBee IEEE 802.15.4 device. Sample codes are given to illustrate how to work with XBee. The following is a highlight topic list in this book. * Preparing Development Environment * Getting started with XBee IEEE 802.15.4 * XBee AT Command * XBee Programming using Python * XBee Digital I/O and ADC * Working with Sleep Mod...

Logic Programming is the name given to a distinctive style of programming, very different from that of conventional programming languages such as C++ and Java. By far the most widely used Logic Programming language is Prolog. Prolog is a good choice for developing complex applications, especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence.Logic Programming with Prolog does not assume that the reader is an experienced programmer or has a background in Mathematics, Logic or Art...

Driven by concrete computational problems in quantitative finance, this book provides aspiring quant developers with the numerical techniques and programming skills they need. The authors start from scratch, so the reader does not need any previous experience of C++. Beginning with straightforward option pricing on binomial trees, the book gradually progresses towards more advanced topics, including nonlinear solvers, Monte Carlo techniques for path-dependent derivative securities, finite ...

How do you take your data analysis skills beyond Excel to the next level? By learning just enough Python to get stuff done. This hands-on guide shows non-programmers like you how to process information that’s initially too messy or difficult to access. You don't need to know a thing about the Python programming language to get started.Through various step-by-step exercises, you’ll learn how to acquire, clean, analyze, and present data efficiently. You’ll also discover how to automa...

Design and develop high performing programs with JuliaKey Features\[\*\] Learn to code high reliability and high performance programs\[\*\] Stand out from the crowd by developing code that runs faster than your peers’ codes\[\*\] This book is intended for developers who are interested in high performance technical programming.Book DescriptionJulia is a high performance, high-level dynamic language designed to address the requ...

Are you a newbie and want to learn R? This book helps you to get started with R basic programming language. Several script samples are be provided to accelerate your learning with step-by-step approach. The following is highlight topics: * Preparing Development Environment: Windows and Linux * Essentials of R Programming Language. Tools: R Console, RGui, RStudio * Collections * Basic Mathematics and Statistics * Read and Write Data * Graphs * Proba...

Design and develop high-performance programs in Julia 1.0Key FeaturesLearn the characteristics of high-performance Julia codeUse the power of the GPU to write efficient numerical codeSpeed up your computation with the help of newly introduced shared memory multi-threading in Julia 1.0Book DescriptionJulia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. If you want to understand how to a...